Many difficulties grew out of it, but still they were not insuperable--a certain clashing of authorities from time to time, and certain jealousy between the one and the other.

These things were the inevitable concomitants of the separation, of the differences between the spiritual and temporal sides, the Spirit and the body, as it were.

So things went on until the President passed away.

When H.P.B.left us, she left me in charge of her work, as her colleague did in Adyar lately, thus uniting again the two powers, the two authorities, in a single person.
Now, what does it mean to the Society?
That is the question for us.
What is it to bring forth in our Movement?
Ill or well?
It is only possible, at this beginning of the road, to point out the two things that _may_ happen.

For the Society and its President together will have to settle which of the two shall come.